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Tailoring dam structures to water quality predictions in new reservoir projects: Assisting decision-making using numerical modeling by Rafael Marcé; Enrique Moreno-Ostos; José Ma García-Barcina; Joan Armengol is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.
Selection of reservoir location, the floodable basin forest handling, and the design of dam structures devoted to water supply (e.g. water outlets) constitute relevant features which strongly determine water quality and frequently demand management strategies to be adopted. Although these crucial aspects should be carefully examined during dam design before construction, currently the development of ad hoc limnological studies tailoring dam location and dam structures to the water quality characteristics expected in the future reservoir is not typical practice. In this study, we use numerical simulation to assist on the design of a new dam project in Spain with the aim of maximizing the quality of the water supplied by the future reservoir. First, we ran a well-known coupled hydrodynamic and biogeochemical dynamic numerical model (DYRESM-CAEDYM) to simulate the potential development of anoxic layers in the future reservoir. Then, we generated several scenarios corresponding to different potential hydraulic conditions and outlet configurations. Second, we built a simplified numerical model to simulate the development of the hypolimnetic oxygen content during the maturation stage aft
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- Author
- Rafael Marcé; Enrique Moreno-Ostos; José Ma García-Barcina; Joan Armengol
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier Inc.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0301-4797)
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)